Three brothers in a celebrity real estate family were charged with sex trafficking conspiracy in a case involving “dozens of victims” from Miami Beach to New York, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Twins Oren and Alon Alexander and their elder brother Tal were charged with working together to “repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of victims,” according to a federal indictment filed in New York.
They were arrested Wednesday in Miami. The charges come in the wake of a string of lawsuits accusing the brothers of rape and sexual assault.
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‘Drugged’ victims
Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said all three brothers had used “force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion” in sexually assaulting women for more than a decade.
“This conduct, as alleged, is heinous,” Williams told reporters.
Some of the victims who were drugged found themselves unable to speak or to move, leaving them unable to escape, and were left with partial memories of their assaults, Williams said.
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Oren and Alon Alexander were also facing separate sexual battery charges in Miami Beach, according to arrest warrants made public Wednesday afternoon.
“Oren Alexander is innocent,” his lawyer, Susan Necheles, told USA TODAY. “The evidence will show that neither he nor his brothers ever committed a crime.”
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